Seattle Police Build Database to Analyze Pot Crimes

SEATTLE, WA — Seattle Police Department has been analyzing pot-related crime in the city, in part to learn whether medical cannabis dispensaries attract violence to their surrounding neighborhood, according to KOMO 4 News.

The police department has been producing quarterly reports about pot-related misconduct for at least two years (I assume these are the same quarterly reports they’ve been filing since 2004 as required by Initiative 75). The report shows that cannabis crime is a small percentage of the overall caseload, but still accounts for 247 pot-related incidents in the first quarter of 2013.

A Seattle police detective told KOMO’s Joel Moreno that some dispensaries experience multiple robberies before they ever call police, so results gleaned from the pot-crime tracking database may be skewed.

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